Wednesday-10-18-2023

Oh, all right, I guess we have to good morning six o seven Wednesday, and it is the cac O Day radio program. Oh wait, hold on, I shouldn't just say Wednesday. A note has crossed by Big Stacko Press releases. Hold on, figure out what's going on here? Oh it's not just Wednesday. Really, you're gonna do this right when I'm about to look at it. Oh, I hate every person involved in the creation of pop ups. Apparently it's today's a themed day. Okay, here we

go, here we go. All right, So apparently Hesba Lah has declared today quote a day of unprecedented, unprecedented anger. Oh wow, Ross, are you feeling unprecedented? Undentedly? Why can I not say that word this morning? Angry? This morning, I'm feeling all those words. I'm not even gonna lie all of them, all the words, because you know, last Friday was day of rage? Right? Were you feeling rage filled last Friday? I mean we were off. It was hard to be very rage.

I think last Friday was more tired. I think, yeah, less rage, more tired, so hard to keep up. So today is a day of unprecedented anger. Friday was day of rage. I don't know if we have room on the count. Do you have a show count called get the show calendar out here? No? No, No, I'm sitting here. I'm looking at this. I'm looking at this, and right already on the calendar, I have Day of Unmitigated Malaise? Did we So we scheduled

that what like several weeks ago? Right, the unmitigated that that was an advanced Yeah. I mean it's been on the calendar for a while, and that's a corporate thing. I'm sorry, Hesbelah. I'm in a tough position here. Hmm. I could maybe sneak you in. Uh, this is so difficult. I could maybe sneak you in next Monday. But I have that down as super duper double Dog Anger Day, and I was pretty pumped about that. And the dogs were happy because they're getting their moment. And

you don't want to you know, you don't want to dogs. You don't want to screw it dogs. They're useful. Hmm. Uh, this is tough, man. Yeah, I don't know if I can do a Day of Rage part two. We're gonna have to see. It just happens to

coincide obviously with the visit. I guess the uh, Joe Biden is in Israel, or has been told he's in Israel and is at the Second Street Deli in New York eating some mats of ball soup I don't know, which, by the way, was vandalized overnight with swastikas and stuff because it was determined that the incredibly famous Jewish deli might support Israel. Who knew. That's one of the things that, by the way, that prompted by Day of Blaze, which is currently on the calendar. So yeah, I don't know.

I don't know how we're gonna fill all. And it's already the holiday season. I mean, you get into October, but especially November and December, calendar's full, buddy, lots of stuff on there. You really, you can't come out of the gate like a day in advance on this. It just doesn't. And trust me, I'm somebody who hates scheduling a bunch of advance. We didn't even like that. We don't even like schedule guests very much. They call, We're like, oh, yeah, no,

we got an opening because we don't schedule anybody. And then maybe and then it's a maybe, So yeah, probably have to get back to hesblon and be like, I don't know, dude, I don't know that we can do it. Mm and then and and so, and I was thinking maybe I can squeeze him in Friday, but I have that down. Is a day of deep introspection that's mostly about the inability of a certain NFL franchise who

released multiple Pro Bowl players to then do anything. And then when they find themselves ravaged with injuries, pretending like they'll just fill the gaps, And then I have to think, is that a team that I want to invest emotional energy in anymore? Was going to be a busy day? M is tough. It's tough, all right, Well, we'll do our best to work all this stuff in, but I don't know that it's going to happen. Not sure, So sorry little housekeeping as we kick off the show today.

Coming up on said show, which again is either rage or malaise filled, depending on whose calendar you're working off. Apparently some of the some more additional college students who are not like fans of the Jews, apparently they're now the victims for some of the stuff they did. Like you realize you can you can have a problem with Israel's policies and record on how they've dealt with this conflict. You're more than welcome to that has been a perfectly acceptable societal position

for a while. You can be you can be in that, But then you don't have to go out and do stuff like tear down missing persons, posters of fellow students, well filming it, you don't. You don't have. That's not a thing that you have to do. You don't have to participate in that. And yet you know, here we are, some students did and then they got called out on it. And you're not gonna believe this, are you sitting down? They're the victim, I know. And

then who did you see ross? Did you see who was standing in front of the White House gates screaming like a madman yesterday about about how much Israel sucks and he's Jewish? By the way, Do you see who was standing in front of their screaming like an idiot that nobody was really paying attention to. And then somebody went, wait, aren't you that guy from the Princess Bride? Uh? Yeah, you mean you mean Vincini. It wasn't a

different guy, Wallace Shawn, Oh my god, it was Vincini. Yeah, wow, really, yeah, he's screaming, I don't believe in revenge. This is revenge. By the way, do you know what he called the Israeli plan of action? Do you know how he described it? Can he guess? Uh? The inconceivable? Ah, yes, thank thank you. See we did not rehearse that, by the way. That was I just knew that Ross would get there. He didn't actually say that, but he does. He does appear to be an idiot there. He is a

good watching it. He's going on and on about it. You don't go in on death when it's you know, when a Sicilian is there. Well, look at it. He's going on and on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he won't shut up. Won't shut up. Just drink it, man, you're so sure, just drink it. I don't think. I used to think we lived in a great world. And now it's like, did you see that meme going around? They're like the America you thought you grew up in, and it's a picture of Britney Spears at like

sixteen, look at all the wholesom and stuff. And then it's like the America you actually grew up in, and it's a still frame of her doing the knife twirling in her underwear, right, Like, if I thought we grew, I would want Wesley to show up and be like, oh, you're so sure of this. I would like to challenge you and then, you know, in front of the White House boom, do the thing.

That would be amazing. And you know, frankly, he should participate because you know, it's it's gonna bring a little more notoriety to your cause other than you just standing there in a black trench coach screaming inconceivable. You know, some are saying that he may not understand the words that he's saying. So I don't know if there's some mental issues or what's going on there, But I had heard that he's holding a sign that says Jews say cease fire.

Now, I mean some of you do, but not the ones running the country apparently. I mean that's just the reality. I'm just calling it like I see it. So, and he looks like he's completely unguarded, you know what. It probably because he's putting himself out there, he probably should have security, perhaps, I don't know, a giant maybe, or a swordsman of some sort. Well, no, he said he brought a brute squad. Oh, he brought a brute squad. I don't see the

brute squad in the photo here. Are we sure that he brought a brute squad. M Well, it's still frame photos, so it's hard to tell. Maybe the brute squad's off to the side there. But yeah, I did like this. So this same group they were protesting yesterday before he showed up too, and they're like, ah, bucking of the White House and then like these two White House workers just kind of walk through them and then

they're like, duh, you suck. So they're not quite as effective as the glue myself to stuff moonbats, but they're there and they have very very highly produced signs, very nice, which is fine. Again, that's fine if you want to go that route, and some of these college students maybe should have gone that route, then people can just judge you on whether they think you're right or wrong. The problem is they went a different route.

And we'll share that story and many more coming up. It is six nineteen hang on, Thank you. Casey is on NUR w PTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. That's a good point, I you know, I don't know, because it is it is a bit of a debate. Ross one of the listeners feels that we are being too hard on former Princess Bride actor Wallace Seawan for standing with his microphone in front

of the White House screaming about Israeli apartheid. But in reality, what he's simply attempting to prevent is the US involving itself in a land war in Asia. Do you think that's a valid point? I know it is a good point. But the problem is, if you ask people is to be at least in Asia, some would say no, some would say yes, some would say it's its own thing. I don't know, and there are examples of land wars in Asia that did pan out. So I guess it just

depends who you are. But we'll look into it. So thanks for that. Okay, all right, rock on, let me grab a quick sorry I'm reading here this His Spaniard was bested, Yes, Spaniard was bested. What I know? What? Bested by whom? Do we know? Do we know? By whom? We're looking into that? We got a lot, Look, we got a lot of irons in the fire. The little

checkout thing at the little store downstairs is broke. We're pretty sure that the Israeli Air Force did that, right, that's initial reporting, is that, that's what we're hearing from sources. Right. I'm having a hard time getting in to my mic today because I'm actually broadcasting from the cliffs of insanity. Oh wow, is there a rope? Do you see a rope? Okay, all right, you got what you want to want to do. You gonna want to find a giant and we'll do that and then I'll tell you

the rest. So oh wait, now we're hearing that maybe the Israeli Air Force didn't actually break the machine at the little store downstairs. Sorry, our initial reporting might have been way off. Uh. Yeah, it was one of those days. So if you do want a day of rage or insanity or whatever that might be, what's prompting it? All? Right, let me grab this call here, which is way not on topic. Yes,

Michelle, what's up? See? I just wanted to know if you go play the vikings they were going to go to you can't because they stop from the Vikings. Well, what I didn't say I was going to leave. I was deciding whether I was going to remain actively emotionally involved, right, you're still going to pull for them. Yeah, you know, like somebody decides they're going to stay in a marriage even though they don't love that person anymore, but they don't want to divide the stuff. So right, and

maybe one day you reinvigorated. So well maybe next year if we give out our number one pick to the uh Chicago Bears, maybe you can pull for the Bears. Well they're gonna have all the they're going to have like the first two or three picks. So craziness, Michelle, I know, appreciate it. Thanks then, keeping you connected. This is ninety four five w P t I and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and the Triangle. So I'm just saying, I'm looking at the list here and I thought

we had what what is this? So we have? I thought we had two guests today. Ross is telling me, or the list here is telling me we have three. So we're going to talk to Jennifer Martin from the Parade, the Parade. That is correct? All right, that's seven, so Lieutenant Governor, right, that's on the list. What is this the healer? What is it's a miracle? Max? What what is what is a miracle map? What what? What? Why is that a thing on the show? Is this? Oh that miracle map? Oh? Okay,

all right, I hear he's good. He used to work with the king, he did you? I did hear that? Married? Right? Yeah, he had a full nice with Humperdink. I think she's nice, the wife, she's kind of a witch. Oh no, can we make sure he's not unnecessarily Jewish, because I don't want people to think. I don't see any signs of that playing of the day there, So all right, Well, so he's very Nordic, okay, all right, So he does

use like a lube nut or something and he gets the job done. Okay, all right, Well on my list, I have Jennifer Martin seven oh five, and then I have Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson eight oh five. So we'll see if the max thing pans out. Okay, all right, very good. Ross is also claiming there's large rats out in the hallway, so be careful. I don't even know what that means. It's a weird day around here, Percy is really Defense Air Force takes out our vending machine.

And now this now the reason, of course I'm mentioning that is because either a hospital got blown to smotherings or it didn't, or it did but it didn't get blown to smotherings with a missile with a bomb, or it did with a missile, or it was dismissal, or the missile was a failed launch missile, or the whole thing's crazy. But yesterday it made for rather

interesting news cycle. Claims of up, you know, hundreds potentially dead immediately went out and immediately through the likes of various news outlets, Keith Oberman because you know how he rolls and others claiming that Israeli air Force had bombed a children's hospital bombed a children's hospital, which, yeah, that's a bad look. And for those of you like, ah, you're you know, you're unsympathetic to the no, I'm not. I think I think it is horrendous.

I think it is horrible and horrendous that citizens, especially young ones, who are drawn into an indoctriative nature by their own government, who is in fact a terrorist organization, would also then be used as a site under which to uh do things. I think that's horrible and that's not by the way, that's not decreasing, uh what have been actual instances of Israeli forces doing stuff that frankly, probably the US wouldn't have engaged in, and understandably is

only going to uh spur things forward. Right, there's no clean hands here, and everybody's trying to justify stuff. But war is ugly. I recognize that. So when it is ugly, it's really important that if you're going to report on it, you attempt to make sure you got the facts.

And while you may have a beef about Israeli settlers pushing into areas they're not supposed to, there's a thing about story munitions under a children's hospital because you think it won't get blown to smitherings or in the case of the AP a lot of people are forgetting about the AP Tower, the AP news outlet a

few years ago. I don't know if you remember, there was a building that was targeted because missiles were literally coming out of it, and so they hit it and they didn't even knock it all the way down, but they hit it. And it also happened to be where the AP had offices. Associated press went bonkers, they're just like, oh my gosh, Israel's bombing our offices, when in reality, the building which AP had been offered offices

in by the local government. Hamas was in and of itself utilized in a military fashion other parts of the building because Hamas realized that if you have the associated press in one of the upstairs offices, you can do all of your shenanigans downstairs, and if somebody does do something, then they'll get outraged on your behalf. And AP is not stupid. They know what's up. So

that level of shenanigans continues to unfold. So this hospital thing happened, and then video started coming out, and they're like, it doesn't really look like a rocket flying out of wherever and slammed into it. It looks like either something failed to take off or did take off but never really got off the ground from a nearby area, and that's what did it. So and at no point did anyone go, yeah, we should probably get all the facts

together before we dive into this. And that shoot up a whole hell of a lot of news cycle yesterday. So I know they want to have like day of unprecedented rage or whatever with that, but I'm just I'm just day of exhausted with everybody doing the same old stuff and pretending that it's not the you know, it's new and shiny as I try to dig through the the tons and tons of stories emulating and admittedly the hundreds of people attempting to spin

each and everything coming out of there. So what is the president on the ground to do today? Some say it could be part of a larger, combined one hundred million dollar package, which seemingly the military is not questioning, combination being funding for Ukraine, funding for Israel. Don't. I don't is Israel asking for anything. I know they ask for some like hostage negotiators, which I guess I don't have a problem with borrowing some people. I know

we have two thousand marines on standby in the area. We've got a few ships bobbing around. But again, the difference here is I don't really understand why US personnel need to be up in this. The Israeli military is far superior technologically and from a number's perspective to anything Hamas is rolling out there. So that's not the issue here. The issue is what will the world do

as these things are unfolding? That's the debate. So the fact that there are people who are who are licking their chops at being able to turn this into what we have to help Israel. Ironically, people who would never help Israel in any other shape, way or form because it wouldn't be good for their election chances. But they will then package deal it with Ukraine stuff and then go, oh, if you don't vote for this, you hate the Jews. That is that is the theater that is probably going to get set

in motion today. So I would encourage you to understand that you heard it here first, I guess would be the best way to say that. Okay, all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, Yeah, yeah, I'm a little cynical this morning. What of it? I can't help it. I didn't want to be this way. This is what years of this crap has has born. Did you see, speaking of my

cynicism? So, did you see the Daily Wire? Right? The Daily Wire, which is the Ben Shapiro I can't remember the other dude's name, who's his partner, but whatever, big conservative news site. They've done movie production, TV production. Obviously they did the what was the the Matt What

is a Woman? Right? That documentary that was everywhere, but then it wasn't and everybody said it sucked and then it went out on Twitter, and then he realized that a bunch of people watched it and nobody wanted to admit

it. And so they've they've been doing various production things and they had this whole like we're going to make an announcement thing going on for a week on their website, which is really annoying because I send ross a lot of links off of their site for the show prep and it doesn't matter how many times you go there, you still have to weave through all of the pop ups for all of their promotions. So they were promoting something, well, they

announced it yesterday and what was it? It was children's programming. That's right. The Daily Wire has producedly four children's programs and they've actually they come up with a name for the Broken Key. They're calling it broken Key. I

don't know if that's a latch key play or what that is. And immediately the standard media lost their crap, including The Guardian, who did a full takedown piece on bent Key, the children's lineup of offerings from the Daily Wire and they they seem to target their ire on chip Chilla, Chip Chilla. I'm not up on the kids. I'm not up on the kids shows Ross do you know of a show called Bluie? Okay, what is what do you understand blue to be? I I kind of. Lincoln doesn't watch it.

I just know it's a thing and I know it's very Marky thinks it's funny, and Markie watches it because her best friend has younger children, who sends her clips of it. I see, okay, but it's but it's a popular it's Australian. I think, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's funny. Yeah yeah, this is this is what I learned. However, however, it is very funny, it is, but it has it has some progressive messaging in there which is not gone unnoticed and I don't

know that they're necessarily targeting that. But the Guardian article is claiming that the uh Chipchilla, one of the Daily Wires programs, is quote a blatant ripoff of blue because Chipchilla uses are you ready for this? A family of talking animals and bright colors, a thing that Bluey invented. So apparently, I'm

sorry that is a claim. I'm sorry that is a take. Bluey, the Australian children's program, invented cartoon talking animals and bright colors, which The Daily Wire has included ed in Chipchilla quote a blatant Bluey knockoff for conservatives. They stole the model of talking animated animals and bright colors. I'm offended on their behalf, right, I mean, you do all that work and somebody

just slides in there and steals your intellectual property. I mean, come on, man, Apparently before Blue we had no talking animated animals and bright colors. And again, I'm not up on kids shows, so I'm not able to fact check that ross that checks out though, Right prior to Blue there was no talking animated animals or bright colors. Right, Yeah, I'm not so sure about that one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is your

wheelhouse, buddy. What do you mean you're not so sure? Are you saying that there possibly could have maybe looking from what I'm seeing here on my you know, on the research that they're they're really wrong. So maybe I mean he's in the wrong search engine. I mean he could hah yeah, yeah, I see what you're doing is you're probably using like, I don't know, some conservative search engine. Big an apologies for this, and you didn't even think of this. Uh, Let me. Let me just go

right to the article. One of Benke's four original series is Chipchilla, an animated show about a family of chinchillas who were home schooled by their parents, and feature Rob Schneider Laura Ownsnis they really they're really upset at the homeschool aspect of it too. Do you realize that actual chinchillas don't go to K twelve public U education? Right? You know why? You know why? I should say that some of them do because they're class pets. Maybe they go

there because they're the pet in the class. But chinchillas otherwise are rodents that live in uh, South America. That's pretty much their their thing. Also, I love this. While the chinchillas are are from uh appear to be from South America, there's nothing vaguely litinicks about the American accented characters in Chipchilla. Do you know that the chinchillas in South America or the chinchillas in captivity in North America? You know, none of them can talk, right?

You know that, right? That's not a thing. They don't actually speak. The chinchillas. I've been to South America. We've talked about this on the show. Do you know what didn't happen to me in South America anywhere? Uh, talking chinchilla, because i'd have went and seen that. I was seeking out things that I want to go see, and that would have been one of them. All Right, there's more to this insanity as we investigate this super unique concept of animated talking animals and why the Daily Wires a

monster. We'll get to that and much more coming up. Hang on, This is one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle and Mears Talk ninety Foupti and the Triad. All right, long segment there, We're going to

roll into the top of the hour break. We got your news coming up, and yeah, of the news related stuff to get into, but I want to talk about the latest update, the latest iteration of people saying, hey, you know what, maybe we should probably have that Christmas parade which is inexplicably still up for debate, and the folks went in front of Raleigh City Council yesterday. We'll chat with Jennifer Martin from the Raleigh Merchants Association.

See what happened, See where we're at. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is seven oh six here on your Wednesday, KCO Day radio program, Glad to have you along. Do you do You do you boy? Boy do? We got a bunch of stuff to get to and we got two guests. We don't normally do two guests, but we're gonna do two guests today. We got Mark Robinson. He's coming up at eight oh five. Apparently everyone's either surprised, happy, or sad he didn't

stage a coup when the governor was in Japan or something. I don't know. Man I admittedly, having a couple of days off last week for VAK, I didn't pay as close of attention to that nothing burger as everyone else did. But well, we'll pick his brain on that. But one of the stories we've been following is what's happening with the Raleigh Christmas Parade. And when we last left you, we were basically at the mayor didn't want it

kind of in my opinion, kind of related. So it sounded like the parents of the girl who was killed last year didn't want it, or at the very least that she didn't want it because they didn't want it, which couldn't be further from the truth according to their own attorney. And it just was a really bad look. And we were starting to hear stories emerge of individuals who really really liked the parade. And I don't mean they like going

to the parade. I mean like people and individuals and kids whose participation was life changing. And after making what, in my opinion, is a really dumb decision, which should be a no brainer when it ross is your desk, do we cancel the Christmas parade? We were in this weird stale stalemate where the Mayor of Raleigh has kind of went, well, you can do it, but you can only do it with no vehicles or any of that,

and that creates a lot of logistical problems. And I was a little hopeful because it sounded like some on counsel were going, hey, why don't you tell us more about this when they spoke with individuals like Jennifer Martin from the Raleigh Merchants Association, which is the actual organizer of the parade. But that's where we left it. Well, yesterday public input City Council and Jennifer was there, so let's hear how this is going. Jennifer, how you

doing this morning? I'm great, thanks for having me. So what happened yesterday? And where are we. We had several folks at her participants in the parade, and even her grandmother who has a child with her grandchild with disabilities, that she is immobile, she's non responsive, she are nonverbal.

However, every year she rides on that float, her chair is secured, and she spoke about the importance of this and how her granddaughter she does react when she's on the float, and what it means to have her in that

parade. We had a pageant Colin and leave a message about how they have a girl that when she rides on the float, she's the same as everyone else her peers, her chair secured and it's too hard to navigate the route given the distance with the chair, and multiple, multiple people spoke yesterday and unfortunately there was still no motion taken up at the end of the meeting, So go ahead, this is this is So did they even discuss the issue?

I know it was part of the public imp it wasn't it's own thing. You had said that some members had asked for your organization to explain more thoroughly safety plans. I mean, how has that been going. There has still been no discussion about that with any of the city's gaffs. We've tried to present that several times at the end of the meeting. There was no

discussion after any representations. At the end of the meeting, when counselors do you have an opportunity to share thoughts or kind of give update on reports. One counselor did say that while she appreciated the presentations, she would absolutely not support having floats or vehicles in the parade this year. They've been advised by the legal council from the city not to and that she was not comfortable.

They felt they have a fiscal responsibility to the city not to do that, even despite having permitted three other parades with floats and vehicles in the city and that they are not under legal litigation. So my question is, all right, so the obviously it appears that they're treating you differently, But I guess in their mind they would say, well, this was the parade that had the incident that sparked all of this. Is this like a one off in

their mind? Or is this the permanency that is the Raleigh Christmas Parade if it is to go forward with no floats, Like, are they just saying, look, this will be in perpetuity like this. Have you had conversation do you know we've had We've had one counselor tell us that this is just for this year, that he wants to fight very hard for us next year to make sure that this is just a one time thing. But you know, we don't know. It's you know, who knows what will happen after

this year. I am just I'm it's impossible to wrap my brain around this. The lack of communication, not that you're not making the effort by by the city count. Have you spoken to the maryor directly since then at all? We have not. We have not. So we've reached out, we've spoken too, I think every other counselor, but we've not had a conversation with the mayor. The father of the young girl showed up at a council and we played the audio last week on the show that that didn't create any

ripples. Huh. Apparently we were told that there was a lot of folks that that's why we came back this last Tuesday yesterday, and that it did move some heart strings and it did move some cause for question of you know what, maybe we need to reverse this. But then after Essay's meeting, there was no action taken. What is? What is? Where do we currently stand? Just for folks who are wondering, because we're halfway through October, so we still are. We are still where we were a month ago.

The float or the Christmas Parade is permitted to happen without floats, without vehicles, and without golf carts, and so we were hoping essay that maybe golf Kirk would be ad so that we could at least for those with mobility issues have the opportunity to have that, but that was not taken up for discussion yesterday. So you can do like ben her chariots right if horses are involved, or we can we can we can do horses, we can do

camels, we can do dogs. That we can do. You can have people walking, you can have people on still, you can do all those kind of things. But my concern also I had to be careful how many horses we put in there and how close together, how close they are to be in you know, things of that nature. That's that's a very bo act. I need that. Yeah, realize the liability. I'll just share

something. So one of the things that as a kid growing up on a ranch on Wyoming that had hunters that would come out and hunt on the property. Our largest insurance liability was not the guns, it wasn't the vehicles, it was the horses that we would we would utilize for that hunting endeavor because horses, right, there's a certain unpredictability there. I'm not knocking on horses. And obviously they are part of a lot of parades. Do you think

you're going to be able to put on a parade? And will you put on a parade under those circumstances If we're limited to seventeen hundred's tech, we will, we will do it. It's going to be quite a challenge, to be honest. Is It's going to be difficult as far as staging and things like that. And obviously I'm going to limit how many horses our organization is just because of the fact, like you said, that they are unpredictable.

So we've you know, those that have trade experience, those have you know, training and carrying carriages, those that have training in you know, we've got a group that they do a rodeo. So they are performance horses. It's meaning that they carry the flags, they carry you know, the parade style shows and things like that. The performances, unfortuately, we'll have to restrict it to those types because of you know, animal gar unpredictable in

that sense. So it's going to be very much a balancing act. Staging will be a challenge because again you've got to be careful of how many trailers you have coming in, where do you emode them. Also, cleaning up after the horses, it's going to be fun, just because again you can't have golf carts to follow them, so we'll have to have and I guess you know trash cans strap to Dolly's and people walk behind them, or you get the city council to do that. That would be good, right do

not have We don't have any politicians. The only politician that's allowed in the parade every year is the current sitting mayor. There's actually a standing rule with the prey. Oh is she going to be in the parade? Have you asked her? She was invited back in June. We have not heard a response. Was she in the parade last year? He was? We always the current sitting mayor is always in the parade. Well, that's another interesting

question. Did you have a chance. I know. One of the other issues we talked about where I let you go was security in and around downtown. I mean, obviously, you guys work with merchants, and one of the things that helped them do the merchant thing is confidence of their customer base

are going to be able to come in and do the business. Do you feel that if I guess they're not working on this at the very least, the city is trying to be more proactive and providing a better merchant environment with some of the issues we've seen on glen Wood and Fayetteville and various other areas of the city. Or sure, we have heard that from several businesses down there that the increased police presence has been great in terms of the quicker response

times. It does kind of send a signal to people that you know, this means business. However, it's still there's so much work to be done down there, you know, and our homeless population is growing substantially. The drug problem unfortunately, a lot of people have substance abuse issues and those can be visibly seen downtown, and so I think, you know, they are

working on those issues. It's also, though, you know, we still have a shortage of police officer in our town, and you know, the police chief is doing everything she can and trying to staff that and trying to adequately adequately address those issues. But it is a challenge when you're down officers and down resources of how do you how do you balance all that with a

growing city and when you have an entire city that's got some issues. I mean, since we talk last go ahead yeah no, no, no go ahead business, you're saying I was going to round it out, but we even we're talking about in the North Raleigh having additional break ins, and you know that that area of town, those businesses are still being hit, and it's just it's it's not falling down in that sense, but I do know that the chief is trying well. I mean, and obviously there's the very

high profile stories that make it in there. You had a stabbing and shooting, a guy who was literally punched to death, but it's also the just the day to day nuisances, right that you have to figure out. And we've long battled this in not just Raleigh, but you know many cities that are trying to figure out how do we revitalize our downtown, whether it's changing parking access right making it because all of these things have an impact on whether

people are going to feel that they want to go down there. You know, if you get a scenario where, let me give you a hypothetical, let's say hypothetically, you know, you get the folks who want to go down to I don't know, like a brewery near Glenwood or whatever, and they park their car and their car happens to get broken into while they're in

they're trying to dine. One would think that that experience would be off putting, not just to them, but to you know, people that they would tell, and that would have an impact on the ability of others to drive downtown, park their car and not have it broken into near say Cloud's brewing company, right Like, you want to make sure that those experiences are not what people are experiencing when they're headed downtown and they feel safe, and that's

what the merchants really want, right Yeah, you know, I think they want employees to feel safe too. Their employees to also be able to park, you know, walk to the business, do their shift, and be able to walk back to their car and not be passled. And I think that's a decent request. I think that's a request that any of us would want, and hopefully we can get to a point where we can make Raleigh safe again, you know. I mean that's that's something that I worked here

in Glen with Zas for ten years. I love that district form for reasons, you know. But it's the downtown area has definitely changed. Yeah, and then and it's not just a Raleigh struggle. Obviously, we have a lot of cities in in our listening range here and this is what they all struggle with just due to changing demographics, reinvestment in downtown businesses, restaurants,

bars, all of that. It is a balancing act. Well, I am sorry that for whatever reason, this Christmas parade needle doesn't seem to be moving. Where can folks go? Just so they can follow along with what are your firm plans as they move forward? What's the website? So it's actually g r M a sort for Greater Raleigh Merchants Association dot org. They can also follow along on Shop Local Raleigh on Instagram and we'll be actively posting

updates about those. You can sign up for our email newsletter any any of our social sites. You can follow and hear more. Okay, all right, Jennifer Martin Raleigh Merchants Association, appreciate the time this morning, thank you, and I'm okay, all right, look at that well, oh and

I just hung up on ours put her on hold. Ross. That was you hear that scenario described that nightmare scenario where somebody would go downtown and try to do something and have their car broken into while they're just you know, trying to enjoy a business downtown. You would think that that right there would send a message to those individuals whose car was broken into that Wow, something needs to be done, right, I mean surely that would stick in your

brain. If it was you and your wife right who had your car broken into, I would yeah, yeah, you probably want to do something about that, be proactive if you were in a position, which you are in a position you're on the radio, but like maybe if you were in a position of elected official, like if you get the sheriff's thing worked out, just saying somebody should totally look into that scenario I just explained and see if

there's a connection. Seven two Cacoday Radio Program. Appreciate you hanging out with us. Sorry that that seemingly hasn't fixed itself because it just seems inexplicably obvious that it should. As multiple people, including literally the grandmother of a girl who is nonverbal and immobilized, is coming to the realization that her grandchild can't participate in this event that does seem to actually shed a little bit of positivity and into into her life, and it just makes me so flipping angry.

We're not gonna let it go. So there's your update. Seven twenty three, Hang on you will one six one FM Talk and n w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey Oday and Carolina's Morning News. All right, seven thirty five, Good morning. Oh no, we got some conspiracy theorists in my email. What are you doing? It's too early for this people. Hey, guys, love the show. Oddly specific hypothetical you threw out to your last guests, they're about the car break

in. No, I mean, it's just something that happens. Unfortunately, it's something that happens and influences people's decision as to whether they want to do business in a particular area, not just downtown, it could be anywhere. Right, You're not gonna go, You're not gonna go someplace, or you're not gonna often go someplace that you feel is inherently unsafe, and that's when it starts to become an issue. So in the hypothetical, let's say,

you know, I throw it a hypothetical. Let's say instead of you know, the Glenwood South or the area directly adjacent maybe cotton mill, maybe you google incident reports of car break ins near the cotton mill, see if anything comes up having to do with any politicians who might be in charge of this? Do you think, Pops, so you can understand the sweet, sweet iron that I'm reveling in this morning. Ah, what a day. Poor Jennifer. She wouldn't take the bait, and rightfully so, but I did

kind of a lot. But I wanted her to explain that they have now they it seemingly doesn't matter what they put up and out there you have this position where elected officials are just like, no, you're not going to do this, and it's inexplicable. It's to quote one of the folks that we talked about earlier on the show, it's inconceivable that you would continue down this road after having smeared the parents of this girl and just irritated the app out

of everybody else. Man, why don't you just go back and go you know what we screwed up? Yeah, yeah, we got this one wrong. But they don't. Meanwhile, some of them have their husband's cars broken into. I hear there's video, not that we have access to it, but what a day? What a day? What a day? Uh? Pivoting? Could everyone stop pooping on planes? Not in the lavatory? I guess you can go there, although you shouldn't really, you know, you want to schedule that. No, nobody likes that. And I told you

what happened. I was on a flight not that long ago where it was. It was a longer flight, like three and a half four hours, and immediately hear the ding at ten thousand feet right, seatbacks back, trade tables coming out, and all of a sudden, here goes bline for the bathroom and in there a long time. Everybody knows what's up, and it's like, really couldn't handle that on the ground at all. The problem, of course, becomes when you have an incident like you had here last month,

where a plane which was in flight to Barcelona from Atlanta. I believe Atlanta Atlanta to Spain had to turn around mid Atlantic after a passenger reportedly went the entire length of the aisle and there's video and it's horrible. Well, this dealing also with Spanish territory and easy Jet. Flight was canceled and its passengers made to disembark after somebody onboard the aircraft decided to go on the floor. Maybe they were from San Francisco. They didn't think anything of it.

Don't know now it was the floor of the laboratory, so they almost made it. Or they don't have they don't understand how a laboratory works, I guess. Aaron ged Hue, a passenger on board, told CNN the flight had already run into trouble pre departure, when the schedule plane was switched out for a smaller aircraft. I have to be honest, I didn't know easy Jet was still a thing because they had that whole Everglades crash. Right, Wasn't that it was that easy Jet or value Jet? Uh now I'm trying

to remember. Yeah, oh okay, So here we go. Two hours after the scheduled departure. They had to wait on the ground for more than an hour while bags were offloaded because the aircraft was overweight. Going back to the easy jet thing, I've never been in an easy Jet, but I've heard them described as a tin Cannish tun a Canish. I think that they're probably a little tight there. So yeah, if you have an incident like this, well obviously it's gonna get real unpleasant, real fast. And it

marks the second incident in just a couple months time. So there you go, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Yep, made that transition. What you're gonna do? All right? So I'm I'm looking a little more here on the The sheer volume of people who are just unmasking themselves is amazing to me. So we have like we have got like university professors. What's this? So this is the guy from what Cornell. This is a professor and I guess he used to teach at Dartmouth

in Colombia. And he's got a bit of a record. Who's perfectly comfortable going out and saying this by this shifting funny doing. So it a little hard to hear as he's being recorded there, but you hear him pretty clearly at the beginning. It was exhilarating it was exciting. What is he talking about. He's talking about the day of attacks on the music festival and the various other areas there in Israel. And again he's shaping young minds at ivy

league schools, not an unknow own commodity. Help the women, and how are those minds being shaped and what do they do with them? Well, you need look no further than several examples that we saw, including a group

of Uh. I guess technically she's a law student, I guess, so you have a you have a law student who was who has been outed after she and several others were seen on video tearing down missing persons posters, so posters of those thought to have been taken hostage during the initial Hamas attack, and the posters were in New York City and she and a couple others decided they we're going to go run around and tear the things down, and they

did. And now she's got beef. Absolutely no, not that she tore them down, that you got upset about it because you're picking on her. Yes. One of the NYU students who ripped down posters of Israeli hostages, Yasmin de he me A Junior, who, by the way, once worked for the Anti Defamation League. You can't make this stuff up, admits to

tearing apart banners plastered outside NYU's t hall that were caught on video. However, says she really didn't have a choice, as she has found it increasingly difficult to quote know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these highly volatile times, imediately immediately into victim mode. Right, I'm a biracial brown woman. I am so persecuted. It's scrambled my brain. I didn't know I shouldn't tear down the pictures of people being held hostage by terrorists.

I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I am. Kind Of think they are, sweetie, kind of think they are one hundred percent. And frankly, you're up there in NYC. Nobody cares that you're biracial. Nobody cares that you're a woman, you're brown, or

whatever words you use to describe yourself. They care that you seem to be a psychopath, right, seemed to be a crazy person, seem to be somebody who's not a fan of the Jews. That is really what people are judging you on, not any of this other stuff you feel as your persecutable,

immutable characteristics. You're selfish, you're self absorbed, You've been convinced that you're a victim, when in reality, the very same scenario that you describe as bringing about your victimhood really ain't a big deal in New York City, but remarkably would create uneven and unfair situations for you, likely in some of the places that you are seemingly wishing to represent. And she wasn't alone.

Multiple literally, multiple people in the medical field also just couldn't shut up long enough after this to not get themselves either fired, suspended, or at least looked at. We have multiple stories of that, so we'll get to all of it. But first, Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. He's here and he's gotten not multiple just one story. It's called the weather and it's it is what it is, so yeah it is, you know, yeah,

and it's not actually bad forecast right through the weekend. There's kind of one day a little iffy, and it's probably gonna be mostly a night Friday night, but maybe between next couple of days and the days after that, including the weekend, gonna be real nice. So it's a pretty good story to tell. Some clouds around this morning, there may be some fogging spots, but we're starting to see some clearing and some sun already in spots.

Low seventies this afternoon, probably stay in the upper sixties and try it in points west tonight in the forties. Tomorrow will be in the low seventies, and then some showers around as we get in through late Friday into Friday evening and Friday night, maybe even a thunderstorm still though we'll be out our above seventy degrees on Friday, So we go one two, two and a half maybe two and three quarters days with dryway before those showers thutter showers come in.

That's all associated with a front and back behind the front for the weekend, dry and cool and sunny, mid upper sixties during the day, and we'll have upper forties to near fifty at night, maybe some low forties at a little bit cooler early next week. So casey not terrible, just got that one little kind of flying the ointment there Friday evening and Friday night. Other than that we should be in real good shape here over the next five

to maybe seven days. So they put out the standard what's the worst Halloween candy thing? And what do you think won this year? I don't know. Candy corn, Yeah, that's what that's what you think, right, because candy corn wins a lot, not candy corn. Oh okay, ready, laughy taffy. Never heard of it? But do you mean you never heard? You've never heard of laughy taffy? Nah, I'm mainstream, you know, I'm M and M Snickers? Is that not laughing stream? Laffy

Taffy's not mainstream? Well, maybe wrong. It's garbage, banana, especially banana laffy taffy, straight garbage, right, you know, kill it with fire, that being said, candy corn man, Okay, I can't believe you don't know laughy tack. Well look at the simple man. Ve you got a vending machine there, go check it out the home office. Now, oh all right, that's that's probably fair. All right, thank you,

sir. Appreciate It is laffy taffy not mainstream. And I don't even like candy, and I just assume it if you go trigger trading and somebody gives you laughing taffy you have, you can you you can just own their home. You're like, this is my house. Now, that's how it works. It's absolute poverty. Nobody wants that candy. Nobody wants I understand the banana laffy taffy. I just remember banana laffy taffy being gross. Yeah, no, it's gross, but they have other laffy taffies the whole,

So all of it's gross. Doesn't matter the flavor. If somebody gives you life. I I see that in my son's like, you know, Halloween bag or whatever. It's going in the trash. I didn't realize people felt so strongly about it, so it's nasty. I had no idea. I just assumed it's and it has the characteristics that are the things I would hate most about candy. So I I can't I'm sure. I'm positive I've tried it, but there's nothing that appeals to me. But I'm assuming it's just

sticky, sweet gooiness, which you know, if you're into candy. I don't understand why that's a problem. Okay, all right, So that's more offensive than the people who have stuck Rambo knives and guns and grenades in your child's candy at least, so you can use that for self defense to defend your family once you find it. You know, have you go through your kids candy laughing taffy? What are you gonna do with it? Well, if it gets really hard, I understand it gets pretty, you can sharpen

it like a prison shive. You can use it like for hurricanes and stuff like if your house springs a leak. Oh, that's good point. Or you gotta, you know, keep the windows, seal the windows or something. All right, look at that Ross is going on mcguiver on this. So apparently it was voted the worst Halloween candy and I Ray doesn't either know what it is and uh Ross is firmly against it. I had no idea

that there was this much passion. But anyway, we'll be back. Hang on your day, Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety four to five w PTI more with Casey starts now. All right, good morning, seven fifty six. Let me grab a quick phone call reminder. Coming up eight oh five Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who some newspaper editors thought was going to stage a coup last week and then when he didn't seem to be more disappointed than that for whatever reason. Well, we'll chat with him.

Uh, let me grab this, Jimmy, got about a minute. What's up? Yes, sir, I think what the city council is doing is they'll wait after the election to make a decision because it's so controversial on the on the Christmas parade. Well, the election is the parades before. So I'm confused. What's the what's the Okay? I thought I thought he was after the election? Oh okay, and I thought you were joking. You're serious. Okay, I don't know. I don't know, okay.

And what they could do, let's get to the important stuff is laffy taffy? Good? Yeah, okay? And what the kid did? Had the horses pull the floats? Well you could do that. What if what if you had vehicles tugging horses just as a big f you you know what I'm saying, just kind of dragging him along. I'm rooting for me. That would work. So all right, all right, thank you appreciate it. Call this morning. I have a good one. So he's pro laughy taffy

and horses being drug against their will. I'm good. Mark and I are actually texting on the on the Halloween candy thing right now, Mark Robertson, we're texting right now. Okay. He says there is worse than laughing taffy, and he's like sending me examples. I was gonna I was gonna ask him how he felt on but you know he's also he has an opinion. I know you're shocked he's but he's a politician, so he's gonna be like, well, ah, candy is good except the candy you don't like,

and then it's not. Well, I have the photo evidence. What did he say? Okay, hold on me forward that to me. All right, well that's right. We're gonna bring the lieutenant governor who's also a gubernatorial candidate in and we're gonna talk about King. All right, Good morning, everybody, and welcome our number three Happy Wednesday pc O Day radio program. Glad to have you long phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Uh, Israeli Air Force take out our phones. Sorry,

I keep making that. People getting mad at me. I'm pointing it out because yesterday and now I'm seeing more and more and more of this, and

I Ross, I appreciate you. Ross reposted something that Pete Calendar had reposted, which is a thread really talking about this quote unquote hospital attack and with with pictures so as to determine whether, in fact it does look like a high end, highly technical Israeli missile did slam into this area and intentionally target a children's hospital, or if there might be a little some something else going on there, like I don't know, failed launch detonation or you know,

crappy marksmanship on the part of others, since nothing else around it seems to be blown to smithereens. But you know, the media went with the one narrative over the others. So all right, anyway, all right, Pire's it's fixed, so they didn't do it. Let's grab Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson who joins us sporting Mark you, Hey, how you doing? Case? Good beer? All right? Before I get to the coup that people thought

you were going to stage, I got the important stuff. So apparently candy corn not the worst candy according to this year's survey's laugh he taff He Ross seems to be on board with that, but he was telling me you were hitting him up with some other stuff. So uh, let's let's get to the important stuff. Where are you out on the candy stuff? Yeah, A candy corn is no, it's right a bit at the top of my

least favorite food ever. Candy corn is not good. Uh. I know that a lot of people that love candy corn, God bless them, but I'm not one of them. Candy corn is basically just stuff that I think Satan puts out there wat people steep out, so what he does, I'm not. I hate candy corn. I don't like it. Uh. Circus peanut is another one that I've never liked, even as a child. I never liked that Nico Wafer's. I know that Bobby wipers, God bless them. I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't like Nico wafers.

That's that's like a trick to get you to eat a tic tac. I never understood that. I thought that was European candy when I was a kid, and it made me not like Europe because that was I think. I think we're all put it best in all those short conversation. It's like Tom's without the antacids benefit. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, how are you on the taffy itself? Though? Yeah, yeah, is not that bad, especially if you're down loose and you need to pull it

out. It's great. Okay, all right, well that is a benefit. I had a guy, uh mark you part of the governor lieutenant governor's gig. You guys, your security is what state North Carolina state troopers? Right? Yes, yes, all right? Can I borrow some guys? Send me an email? And he said his least favorite Halloween candy is Reese's Cups because he doesn't like peanut butter. Can I borrow some of your true so we can get this guy out of the state. Is that a thing

I can do? I don't think that would be legal, but it certainly is an ideal. Come on, who doesn't like Reci's peanut butter cups? Apparently Jim, who lives and done so God bless Jim Man. Like I said, everybody's got dim for case. But but I love, loved the peanut butter cups, so don't keep them going, keep them going. I don't feel that Johnson County should have to suffer Jim, so obviously he's obviously not a stable person. All right. Now, speaking of not stableman.

Yeah, the uh uh, speaking of not stable man. The twenty four hours from when you said, hey, I got me an announcement and oh, by the way, I'm the acting governor, and before you actually did the announcement, the amount of wild tall tale conspiracy theories about what you were up to that came out was wildly entertaining to me. So for those of those who don't know, when the governor of North Carolina is not here,

the lieutenant governor is technically the acting governor. There's certain situations, either he's absent from the state or it's similar to like the twenty fifth up in the federal presidential thing, where if he's incapacitated, then the lieutenant governor would step in. But when he's out of the state, and for the most part, it's just a thing that exists in the background. Nothing really happens, right, you're not out there moving your stuff into into the governor's mansion.

However, you did take the opportunity during Roy's visit to Japan to announce that you were going to do something, and they thought you were going to stage a coup. You didn't stage a coup. What did you do? Well, we declared a week of solidarity with the people of Israeld the nation of Bisal and we established it a day of prayer for the nation of visual because we felt like it was something that needed to be done. Uh. Let

me make this clear. This wasn't something to try to upstage the governor, but we did feel like that the governor, you know, the governor, let's just let's just get down the right to brass tacks. He spent no time in coming on television during COVID to tell people they had to shut down their businesses and then they couldn't go to church. He did it, uh,

without hesitation when these attacks took place. Uh, immediately the governor should have come out to show a sign, to show a strong stand of solidarity with our strongest all lit Israel. He should have. He should have done it. Uh. From from my purview, he should have done it in the day, the day after, or or close to. It should have been done immediately. Uh. The flags weren't lowered until the day we announced that we were going to have a conference or press conference. Uh, and

I still think that was far too late. He should have done it. He should have done on television instead. Of it from doing it from Japan. He should have called the press conference and he should have made it clear that the State of North Carolina stands in solidarity with Israel. He didn't do it it. So we took we took the the ability that we had to do that to show the state, to show Israel and show the world that North Carolina stands arm and on with Israel and this time of crisis and will

continue to stand arm and off with him. All right, Well, there's about three things that come up with this one, and I thought it was a little interesting. People were saying, well, it's not it's not Mark Robinson or for that matter, to the State of North Carolina's place to weigh in on international issues, and he shouldn't have done it. Ironically, those people are supporting Cooper, who literally was absent because he was visiting another country's

leadership and business folks there, so you can't claim that. But two, they said, how dare Mark Robinson do this because he's an anti semi and uh and then they go look at his Facebook, look at look at all of this. How do you respond to that because they you know, they have posts where you put six million killed in quotes and I think that's their PATCHA. Yeah, so talk to me about that, because that's the culdule

they want to use it. It was playing. The commentary we were making in that post was not about the Holocaust itself, which is a historical fact and undeniable historical fact. We were talking about the narrative around gun control in Germany and how that happened, and that's plain in that post, and I've made that plane. The second post was basically quotes from from other folks in the film industry that I used in another post to talk about a movie that

was out that that I made some commentary on as a private citizen. It was I admit that that post was poorly worded and it completely conveyed my message.

But anti Semitic? Are you kidding me? You want to find anti Semites, Let's go to the University of Chapel Hill and find those students that are putting out those posters that are in favor of murdering is rarely civilians, women and children at concerts who posted, who passed out flyers posting the pictures of the paragliders mocked up to these paragliders of murdering these folks in Israel. You want to find anti Semitism, Let's go up and talk to some of

the members of Congress. We have made horrendous statements against the State of Israel and her people. I'm not an anti semi by any stretch of imagination, but I can take you and show you a few right now that are not being held accountable by the press at all. Do you think it's the job of a state governor to be weighing in on those types of issues to that original point or do you think really head down and you know, focus,

focus on what immediately impacts you. Oh, no, absolutely. This is the job of the the state of US, our state leaders to stand up and speak up against these things that are going on on the world stage. To let the folks is really, let the people of this country, let the people of the world know where we stand on this issue, and that we stand firmly, firmly by allies UH in Europe and and and with the Jewish people there, and with the Americans who are there and everybody who is

under attacked by this business of terrorist group. It of course is our job to stand up and speak up. It's certainly not our job to tell people they can't go to church, but it's our job to stand up and let folks know where we stand on crucial issues which may end up sending our young men and women in the harm's way. Well, and that and that, and that's gonna be the that was gonna be my How how North Carolina really

factors into this. Not only do we have the largest representation of veterans within our community, but we have a gigantic military presence and and a large representation in the roughly two thousand Marines based out of Le June who are now at the ready over there in Israel. And I don't know where you stand on this. I hope that not a single American boot touches the ground. I think we're dealing with a situation that is somewhat unique in the fact that it's

not Ukraine where you question their military readiness versus Russia. Israel is clearly militarily from an equipment standpoint and troops standpoints superior to Hamas. I guess where are you at this on this? Since you do want a way in, well, you know, weighing in on the strategy of how we handle it. Is one thing, weighing in on our support for Israel's another, and my

support for Israel lives in this. I don't believe any of this would have happened if we had a president that wasn't helping to fund Hamas from the very beginning, six billion dollars sent to our ran for them to use to help

fund these terrorists. I believe that it would not be happening if those folks in Iran and the leaders of Hamas understood that we have a president who would back Israel absolutely to the hilt and allow Israel to do whatever it needs to do to eliminate the threat without any type of interference or without calls will quote cease fires, and having allies in our Congress that are more interested in seeing

a mock succeed than they are the Jewish people in Israel to survive. And so, while I don't know whether or not we should send truths because I'm not privy to all the information that's going on in Israel on the ground, I am in favor of allowing them to do whatever is necessary and backing them one hundred percent of whatever is necessary to eliminate this threat completely. You know what, is strange to me on this issue is I have not seen an

official party statement from the Democrats here in North Carolina. You think that's a little weird, we're out now on that. I don't think it's a little weird because, like everything else, from defunding the police to allowing crime to become a revolving door where those who could commit violent crimes and hangus crimes are hardly held accountable for their actions, Democrats are soft on crime, they're salt on terror, and they have allies who are let's just go ahead and say

it. They have allies who support criminal action and allies who support terrorism, and they don't want to offend those people, so they remain silent on this issue. There is a lawsuit that has been filed on the transgender issues, which obviously are a you had legislation, you had vetos, you had gubernatorial over or overrides by the General Assembly, But lawsuits filed on behalf of a nine year old, obviously via the parent and whatever group is attached, basically

suing over access to gender affirming care. These lawsuits and series of lawsuits play have played out all across the country. North Carolina is now dipping its toe is the latest into it. I got a question, what would Mark Robinson say to this nine year old who is now being put at the forefront by his parents over this issue. I mean, how do you talk to kids about this, Mark, Because that's what we're actually debating. I wouldn't talk to this child at all. It's not my pur view to talk to the

child. That's his parents' job to talk to him. Now. If his parents want to talk to me, that would be fine. And what I would tell his parents is this, in the state of North Carolina, we're not going to allow you to make this life change the decision for this child at this age. It is illegal. It should be illegal. We will not allow you to let your child get a tattoo. We will not allow your child to buy a call or a home or sign a contract at that

age. We are not going to allow them to change the sex at nine years old. It is a ridiculous proposition to do that to a child. It's ridiculous, and quite frankly, I don't even know why we're having this conversation. I really don't. It is a ridiculous proposition and it is an absolute no go for me. And I'll tell that to his parents. Well, we're having it because, as you know, there is a ton, ton ton of activist money that's going to come in and support this lawsuit.

The child who goes by the name Victor, obviously an alias here, is described as a nine year old from Durham who is suing via the parents because he was not able to now access the life the way that they were. The stuff in the media is incredible to me, life saving medical care to help transition genders. Do you sometimes feel like the narrative war is just been lost within the medical community and especially within the media community because the way that

they control the language surrounding this. Absolutely, and I can tell you this Casey, and I say this with full confidence. If we continue down this road as a nation, if we continue to do this, God help us, God help us, we are going to create an Absolutely, we're going

to create absolute chaos in this society. When we start breaking down the basic tenant of science, basic science male and female, When we start destroying that line because of this type of activity, we are descending into madness and chaos. And if we continue down this road and don't have some grown ups to take the helm and stand up with other grown ups and just say no,

this country is going to fall into chaos. And I would assume that would be long before we fall because the nation that would allow this kind of activity and a permit through courts if they do, if they do, and I play god that they don't, but if they do, this nation is just going to continue to fall into madness. Okay, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson joining

us, appreciate the time there, Sir. I don't know if you guys are gonna give candy out at the Lieutenant Governor's mansion, but it sounds like it'll probably be not Nico Wafers in Circus peanuts, so that's good. We'll talk about a wide variety because we know everybody likes kind of everything, so we'll have a whive except for Jim and Dunn, who's crazy. All right, we got a roll, but we'll be right back. Hang on dental the show. After the show is on the iHeart radio app. Search Casey

Oday for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. Yeah, well what if then what if the dude's into that? See, you didn't even think of that. Cross trying to win an argument but not having fully thought it through. One of the most insane stories in the stack today, and why the hell not. Here we go a funeral homeworker whose job it is to basically transport dead bodies from places to said funeral homes. So somebody dies in their

house or whatever, they diet the DMV while they're waiting. Then and this funeral home is tasked with it, then they will go and they will retrieve the body and take it to the funeral home. All right, pretty standard, all right, that's somebody's job, even if you think it's a little weird, that's somebody's job. It's several people's jobs out there. James Ryan Smith, that's his gig. He's just going about his day. And he and his colleague were dispatched to a home this is in Omaha, Nebraska,

to collect the body of an individual who had passed away. Just you know, standard nine to five, nothing, nothing crazy, been there one hundred times. Except there was a little bit of a twist as the property manager. Property manager let them into the property to retrieve the body. It was apparent to all in the room, well maybe not the deceased, because he's deceased, but that the scene was a little weird because yeah, dude was

dead, and on the bed. Next to dead dude was a very very realistic, high end sex spot, you know, sex doll, sex robot. Whatever. It was a nice one he had, he'd saved up. Well. Ryan Smith took one look at that thing, took one look look over at the dude who is now again deceased, and apparently, according to authorities, he concocted a plan. According to the property manager, Smith had

then informed him basically. So they got the body and then Smith and then left, and then Smith called him and was like, oh, by the way, hey, the sheriff asked me to take the sex spot so I could collect swabs for biopsy or something. I threw a little science out there. He said, oh, okay, yeah, we got to do the thing with the guy, David Caruso is gonna run it and the team and they're gonna look at it. So I'm gonna need to take the sex robot

and nothing to see here, and so he did. However, the manager said he was so he was a little creeped out, and he said, no, I think the manager wanted it for himself. He said that sounds nobody told me anything. About that, so you can't do that, and he did not allow him access. However, shortly thereafter, the manager returned to the apartment to discover that somebody had gained entry and lo and behold who's in there? According to the manager, it's Ryan Smith, the forty one

year old worker at the funeral home. By the time the manager arrived, Smith was attempting to exit the home and described as quote, leaving with his shirt untucked and his pants in disarray. Cops recalled. Smith later arrested on felony burglary charges. A post arrest examination revealed the sex doll to gosh, how do I say this to be? It was gross, freshly, freshly adorned, nasty, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And ironically at that point, because of this, then the law enforcement did have to see

said sex bot because now they did have to process it for DNA. Okay, all right, Ross, I'm not a lawyer. You're not a lawyer, right, not a lawyer? Yeah, I'm not. You're but you're familiar with finders v keepers, right I am? Yeah? Okay, dead dude's not using it anymore, you know what I mean, he's he's done with it, and maybe his family doesn't want to when they go to pack up his stuff, maybe they don't want to find that he's so in a way, guys just trying to do him a favor. Do you know what

I'm saying. It's like a family, you're not gonna hand that down, right, So you think he's doing it to, you know, as as a favor for the guy. Well they're twofold twofold now, because he stumbled across it and he was like, I need me some of that. Well, and and what he realizes that by re recycling, reusing, renewing, he's limiting the carbon foot print that would be required to manufacture another sex doll. What if it's haunted? And the what what by the guy who died?

Who's going to He's gonna haunt it, haunt his doll? Like literally, isn't that the Insidious movies or what? No, it could be cursed whatever that series is, it's insidious, that's what. But it's the one with the couple who does the paranormal. It's adult, right, Annabelle. Okay, So so you think that there's potentially while this guy is in this dude's house hooking up with the doll, the ghost of the deceased. Guy's like, what are you doing? Stop? You think that might be a

thing? Not exactly Okay, what if the dude, I can't go into details here. Yeah, what if the guy's into that though? Right? What if his thing is hooking up with an inanimate object ala ghost harasses him? His stories we've done where people like police find these things and at first they think it's like a body. Yeah, they're like, oh, police think they discover a body and it's just like something that somebody threw out off to the side of the road. And we've gone over this before in the

show. Like the theory is the people either upgrade or need to get rid of it, and they don't want to put it out into the trash, so they just drive and they just throw it out their car. That's it. Or their relative dies, right, the weird uncle kicked right, and they go to his house to pack it up, and you know, everyone was like, ah, I'll take the records. Oh look at this. He's got a collection of coins, and then you divvy that up. But at no point do you get into the weird sex spot, you know,

in the closet and people go dibbs, right, nobody does that. Nobody wants that handed down. If you're at a will reading right and they're going who gets the grand Yeah yeah, no uh uh. And to my nephew, Ross, I leave annalyin what is that? My uh my most faithful companion? And then boom, that's your and now that's that's you know, that's your cross to bear. So this guy is just trying to make that not a thing for people to have to deal with, and now he's going

to jail. Smith has subsequently been fired from Mid America First Call, which, according to the website, specializes in removals, transportation and bombing, cremations and shipouts and apparently uh sexpot stuff. So it's a sub subdivision there.

Nah. I feel like, I feel, look, there's nobody should be going to jail here and I and I honestly believe the manager wanted it for himself, right because way, if you're the manager, why would you not just be like, yeah, get that the hell out of here, you know what I'm saying, unless you had like plans, that's my theory anyway, eight forty five. Yes, that's a story that exists in our world, and you're welcome. Ray stagic. He has stories that exist during the

weather. Did you hear that whole thing? Man? I did not. I only cut the tail end of it. Oh my gosh. Basically, some dude died. The funeral homeworker went over to get the dude and the dude's dead on the bed and next to him is like a real high end sex robot. Oh, and the guy's like he makes up this story to the manager. He's like, oh, yeah, the sheriff wanted me to

take that so we could swab it for stuff. And the manager's like, I don't think so, because I assume the manager running and the dude broke in to get with it, and now he's you know, he's gonna go to jail, and I'm like, no, the dude's not using it anymore and nobody's gonna want that. At the will telling you it could be haunted,

and Ross thinks is haunted because he thinks everything's haunted. So yeah, well, but like like if you went to your your weird uncle's will reading and you found out that you get you know, you know, you get crystal right, You're not gonna be happy about that. No, No, you wanted the coin collection. This is right, is too much? So no, anyway, all right, yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing. So weather's the thing too, and it's stead is less creepy,

I hope. Well it's not going to be bad at all. Beautiful fall weekend coming up if I jump to that. If you want to do some fall things outside, Hey, pumpkin picking and pumpkin patches are popular this time of year. I've I've been asked, but I declined, and you know, like pumpkin patches. Crystal Ross yeah, oh Crystal, Yeah, she's a big fan. So you guys. Yeah, So I got the old We're not going to have any pumpkins this year. I was like, really, it looks like, well, you know, the kids are we've got

interested in easy man. Well, I've got a feeling. I've got a feeling I'm not gonna get off that easy. But anyway, should be great

for it. A little cloud around Starter rode away. We'll get some sun as we go through this morning into the afternoon, probably not mostly Sunday, especially triangle to the west seem more clearing right around seventy degrees either side of that in the forties tonight near seventy and sunny for tomorrow, and then it'll go downhill a little bit Friday afternoon and evening, could affect Friday night football and Saturday there'll be some showers around, maybe a thunderstorm as we go on

through the early morning hours, maybe even before sunrise. But then it should be gone and we'll clear it out and have a beautiful weekend up sixties and upper forties, low fifties at night and then a little cooler by Monday morning. But early next week looks good to You're gonna have a big ridge and we met at sea rain again until potentially maybe next weekend, after we get these rain showers Friday and Friday night. So the message really dry and let's

say seasonably cool nowhere extremes coming in. Mostly we'll see dry weather over the next few days. Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it. Okay, you tomorrow and we'll come back, Joan Donagher. Next, hang on, thank you. Casey is on ninety four to five WPTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, fifty three Bloomberg update. Now, Joan Donagher, what's happening? Well? A subscription fee to use the social network formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk

is testing that idea in New Zealand and the Philippines starting today. The subscription fee isn't much. It amounts to a dollar a year for accounts that want to post and interact with others. That means if you don't pay, you

won't be able to use, like or bookmark a post. Open Ai is building a way to detect images created by artificial intelligen Since the company says it's ninety nine percent reliable, the need for that kind of tool growings, and say I can be used to manipulate or just plane makeup news reports of global events. All the airlines figured they would be flying high now post pandemic, but United sees its fourth quarter profit falling short of estimates. The suspension of

flights to Tel Aviv will really hurt. It has the most service to Tel Aviv among the US based airlines. It's not the only issue, though higher jet fuel costs are eating into its profits as well. Things are getting better for Adidas. It expects a much lower loss than anticipate it this year.

Originally after it broke off all its ties to Ya you know, Kanye West, following his anti Semitic comments, Adidas had warned it might post about a three quarters of a billion dollar loss if it had to write off all the inventory from Ya's Easy brand. Instead, it's alled It's Easy inventory and could see a boost from selling more of it during the holidays. And the Federal Reserve is getting ready to drop a plan to lower the fees stores pay to

banks when we use debit cards. The Wall Street Journal says it could happen as early as next week. And finally, Casey bosses are getting impatient with people taking sick days. The Wall Street Journal says payroll data shows the number of sick days we take each year has shot up since the pandemic. Employees between the ages of twenty five and thirty four are taking sick days most often. Stilantis has made it part of its bargaining with the United Autoworkers Union.

Really that age I could ross and I did the math, we could be gone for like months which have so many sick days? Rolling over he quick question every year they go what's the worst? How wing candy? And usually candy corn wins this year somehow laughy taffy one. How do we feel about taffy. You like laffy taffy taffy. I'm good with that candy corn I hate, but laughy taffy, even the banana laughy taffy, which is a thing. Okay, that's gross, that's gross. All right, all right,

fair enough, all right, Joan, thank you appreciate it. Talk yep, so Joan likes laughy taffy. See there are people like it. I don't really solve whether it's a Halloween candy. Oh wait, people are sending me emails. Oh. I would never take a relative thing like doctor should have given it. You know what, sir, you might have inherited something that one of your relatives absolutely hooked up with. Did you ever think of that? That thought ever cross your mind? Right, got your uncle

Jim's toaster or pillow or couch or something. What do you think happened on that? Dude? We used to have a couch at one of the radio stations I worked at that I wouldn't sit on because I knew that one of the morning shows did a bit where they had really really really really obese people come in and hook up on it. Ross. You know the couch I'm referring to, don't I sure do. Yeah, you do. Right, So if you inherited anything from any relative, you don't know what happened on

there. That may well be their companion. And now it's in your man case. Definitely not. My dad's a bean bag chair from Saigon? Right, what it's good? It shoots ping pong balls? Right, Yes, that's amazing. Who does that except that chair? All right? Real quick, Chris, what's up, Casey? This is a pretty good subject. Maybe that he was just trying to find a new way to embalm it, or maybe it's a procedure for embalming sex dolls. I don't know, sir.

I just know that when its head starts spinning around, it's either a mechanical malfunction or you know, satan. So there's that that theory. Jason, real quick, what's up? But I got a question. Has anyone thought that maybe that they guys prsted a girlfriend might have been the one that kid him? Well, it might be too early an investigation, sir, And I think that one of the things that might push that forward is had they let this work or taken and he too ended up dead, you might

see a pattern emerged, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Now we won't know I guess unless the manager dies or something. So there's that, all right, Bosh, how much you want for that beanbag chair? By the way, I'll do this priceless? Is it because it shoots ping pong balls or other stuff. I'm just saying, if you had inherited something from a relative and they were kind of weird, probably want a bleaching